Great Australian Sporting Moments
By Michael Roberts

The Miegunyah Press, Publication Date: October 2008   RRP: $49.99, Hb, 978-0-522-85547-0, 

Where were you when in one stroke, test captain Steve Waugh defied critics and became one of only three men to score over 10,000 runs? When Pat Cash took Wimbledon? Or when Cathy Freeman grabbed gold at the Sydney 2000 Games?

Wherever you were, you’ll feel like you were right there with Great Australian Sporting Moments.  The headlines, the record breakers, the triumphs and the magic moments. An illustrated tribute to memorable Aussie sporting heroes, it’s great value and the perfect gift for sports fans of all ages.

Michael Roberts is a journalist, author and sports historian. He's written or edited around a dozen books, the most recent being The Barrackers Are Shouting- Stories of Collingwood From the Grandstand, and 50 Years of Australian Television.

Little Books on Big Themes

In the second installment of the Little Books on Big Themes series, MUP continues to match Australia’s leading thinkers and cultural figures with the some of the big themes in life.

On Indignation
By Don Watson

Melbourne University Press, Publication Date: October 2008   RRP: $19.95, Hb, 978-0-522-85535-7

Don Watson explores, with characteristic wit, indignation through generations of his family and their Old Testament rages. He asks why wounded pride or a sense of injustice unleashes the furies and whether there is ever

On Luck
By Anne Summers

Melbourne University Press, Publication Date: October 2008   RRP: $19.95, Hb, 978-0-522-85586-9

In her challenging, provocative essay On Luck, Anne Summers picks apart Australians’ cherished belief in luck and being lucky, and suggests that maybe we can do better.

On Obsession
By Malcolm Knox

Melbourne University Press, Publication Date: October 2008   RRP: $19.95, Hb, 978-0-522-85563-0

Malcolm contemplates love, Proust, soulmates in fiction, palindromic numbers and bloodlines, among other fixations, and wonders if the obsessive quest marks a retreat from life.

On Digestion
By Gay Bilson

Melbourne University Press, Publication Date: October 2008   RRP: $19.95, Hb, 978-0-522-85562-3

With her trademark elegance and erudition, Gay Bilson’s On Digestion embarks on a lively journey through cooking, recipes and home, considering food developments both digestible and not; on chefs domestic and professional; on the substance of everyday life.

Botanical Riches
Stories of Botanical Exploration
By Richard Aitken

The Miegunyah Press, RRP: $45.00, Pb, 978-0-522-85505-0

*2006 BESTSELLER NOW IN PAPERBACK

Botanical Riches is magnificently illustrated with some of the world's most glorious engraved, lithographed and hand-coloured botanical illustrations. From the earliest Renaissance herbals, to the more elaborate and beautiful volumes from the birth of printing, books celebrating plants from far-off lands brought with them a sense of wonder.

Richard Aitken is a Melbourne-based architect, curator, and historian. His publications include The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (2002), Gardenesque: A Celebration of Australian Gardening (2004) and Seeds of Change: An Illustrated History of Adelaide Botanic Garden (2006).

The Constant Gardener
By Holly Kerr Forsyth

The Miegunyah Press, RRP: $49.99, Pb, 978-0-522-85540-1

*2007 BESTSELLER NOW IN PAPERBACK

The Constant Gardener is a beautifully illustrated botanical bible infused with passion and deep-rooted knowledge. It is all at once an inspiration, a how-to, and a pleasure to read.

Covering an enormous range of subjects, this essential guide to your garden is packed with handy hints, recipes and stories.

Holly Kerr Forsyth is a writer, photographer and passionate gardener. She has written about gardens for more than a decade and has been the Weekend Australian garden columnist for ten years. She is the author of four books on gardening, including the best-selling Remembered Gardens: Eight women and their visions of an Australian landscape.

Uncommissioned Art
An AZ of Australian Graffiti
By Christine Dew

The Miegunyah Press, RRP: $34.99, Pb, 978-0-522-85506-7

*2007 BESTSELLER NOW IN PAPERBACK

This illustrated A-Z combines beautiful colour images from Australia's thriving graffiti and street art culture, interviews with some of Australia's most important graffiti and street artists, analysis of the history and evolution of the scene and discussion of urban planning, community and freedom of speech raised by graffiti's presence in public space.

Christine Dew is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies and an Australian Research Council Associate in the History Program at La Trobe University in Melbourne.

Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember the King
By Mike McColl-Jones

In this insider portrait of Graham Kennedy, Mike McColl-Jones offers a never-before-seen side to the life of the King of Television. Lavishly illustrated, this is a must-have for fans of television and Graham Kennedy.

First Australians: An Illustrated History
Edited by Rachel Perkins and Marcia Langton

Alive with colonial detail-corruption, mutinies and pyrrhic victories-First Australians tells the story that gave birth to the nation. The companion book to a major SBS documentary series.

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